Final plans for the UK's first state-maintained, inclusive Jewish secondary school have received mixed reviews from parents and residents.

The Jewish Community Secondary School (JCoSS) Trust submitted a planning application on Friday for the East Barnet school after making changes in response to residents' concerns.

The proposals are for a 14,852 metre-squared building on the site of the existing East Barnet Upper School, Westbrook Crescent, with dance and drama studios, fitness suite, all-weather playing fields and grass pitches.

There would also be a hydrotherapy pool for children with disabilities, believed to be the first of its kind in Barnet.

Some residents living near the site claimed that a planned driveway across Pymmes Brook and the playing field of Livingstone Primary School, at the edge of Monken Hadley Common, would increase traffic in the area and cause environmental damage.

Consequently, JCoSS introduced new on-site parking, waiting areas and a park and stride scheme, where coaches can drop off and pick up pupils at New Barnet station to minimise congestion.

All parents whose children are dropped off will be expected to sign an agreement saying they will use the scheme, and the plans will be scrutinised by an independent Environmental Impact Assessment.

Helen Pryce, of the Barnet Safe Children and Environment Group, said of the new plans: "It doesn't take an assessment to work out that if you build a road across a playing field it will harm the environment. We are very welcoming of JCoSS but the feeling of anger is running very high.

"The green travel plan is great, but it's not new to us, and there's only so much they can control the area outside their own grounds. Westbrook Crescent will still be used by the parents for dropping off, and it will bring more traffic and pollution to the school."

However, other residents have started a petition in favour of the school, collecting 80 signatures in a week. Sam Hewlings, 17, a pupil at East Barnet School, said: "I honestly can't say anything against the plans. How can people campaign against education?"

A JCoSS spokesman said the school anticipated that between two thirds and three quarters of pupils would travel either by coach or public transport.

JCoSS Trust chairman, Michael Phillips, said: "We acknowledge that no planning application can please everyone, but we hope we have managed to minimise the impact on residents while bringing to Barnet an excellent and innovative school, which will be a source of pride for the whole community."

JCoSS will educate up to 1,350 pupils and include spaces for 50 children from the borough with severe disabilities, regardless of religion. So far, 500 parents have registered an interest in sending their children to the school, 72 per cent of whom live in Barnet.